Conferences & Presentations:

Profs. Elias Balaras and Michael Plesniak (MAE) served as invited panelists at the FDA Public Workshop on Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Devices on June 9. The panel discussed the role of experiments and simulations in biomedical device design and evaluation.

Prof. Andrew Cutler (MAE) and his doctoral student Gaetano Magnotti gave presentations at the 10th ECONOS Conference/30th CARS Workshop, University of Twente, Holland, May 22-25. The presentations are titled "Dual-Pump CARS Applications to Supersonic Combustion" (invited talk) and "Saturation Effects in Dual-Pump CARS."

Prof. Michael Stankosky (EMSE) was a keynote speaker at Smart E-Learning Russia 2011 International Education Forum, where he made a June 8 presentation on knowledge management and smart e-learning. On June 7 he was the moderator of a round table discussion on knowledge management in the 21st century at Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics.

Other:

Two undergraduate interns have arrived from the Ecole Superieure D'Ingenieurs de Poitiers in France to work in the area of energy. They will work with Profs. Philippe Bardet and Charles Garris (MAE) over the summer on a project involving the use of liquid metals to provide thermal energy storage. Their names are Aurelie Boffo and Vincent Caroff.